Review: The Disappearing Shore by Roberta Park
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
For a book that can be breezed through in a couple of hours, this pseudonymously written novella manages to plumb the modern-day human dilemma with surprising depth and emotion.
Movie review: Snowpiercer
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
If you feel like some gritty, thrilling, eco-dystopian cinema, this currently trending cli-fi epic is available on multiple streaming platforms.
Review: An Archdruid’s Tales by John Michael Greer
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
In his anthology An Archdruid’s Tales, Greer seeks to use fiction, together with a few nonfiction forays into future scenarios, as a means of painting a more accurate picture of what lies ahead for industrial civilization.
Review of Love in the Ruins (Short Story and Poetry Collection Edited by John Michael Greer)
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Perhaps the most striking feature of this anthology of stories and verse about romance in the deindustrial future is its rich assortment of tones and styles. Some stories are charming, others throb with as much trauma as passion and still others feel as timeless as myths.
Review: The Dream Hunt and Other Tales by Catherine McGuire
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
How will future generations fare in the world of scarcity and instability to which our present-day actions are consigning them? Catherine McGuire’s short story collection The Dream Hunt and Other Tales suggests a multitude of possible answers to this.
Movie Review: Contagion
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
When the medical thriller movie Contagion came out in 2011, it was widely praised for its realistic portrayal of a global pandemic scenario. In recent weeks, as the real-life outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread around the world, there’s been a surge of renewed interest in the film.
Review: Living in the Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Kunstler’s latest book is a welcome nonfiction follow-up to The Long Emergency titled Living in the Long Emergency. It profiles a handful of remarkable people from across America whose lifestyles embody what Kunstler refers to as “heroic adaptation.”
The Earthing Movie (Documentary Film Review)
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Immersion in nature has a wide range of human health benefits. It has been found to do amazing things for our mood as well as our nervous, endocrine and immune systems. But as with anything, it's important to bring a critical eye to claims made about nature's healing powers, as some of these claims have been known to stray into the absurd.